Search Results: Culture Shock
20 Smartest Cities in America
While some insist that America is hurtling towards becoming an idiocracy, in truth its citizens are smarter and better educated than ever before. Today, 59% of American adults are able to say they’ve completed some college education or more, while 1 in 3 boast a bachelor’s degree or higher.
16 Worst Places to Raise a Family
Raising children is both a privilege and a challenge, and one that everyone wants to succeed at. When it comes to bringing up happy, healthy kids, some places in the world are more suitable than others. Here are 16 cities across the globe where raising children is an even more challenging task than usual.
20 Reasons You Should Travel With Your Kids
My parents helped me and my siblings adjust to travel at a nice young age, and it resulted in all of us becoming lifelong travelers in some form or another. This is why you should convert your offspring–while they’re still young!
16 Places That Still Practice Cannibalism
There are few greater taboos in human culture than that against cannibalism. There’s something especially grotesque in the minds of most humans about eating their fellow man. Even so, cannibalism still persists as a practice in some pockets of the world.
7 Reasons Why Traveling With a Hipster Sucks
In my last post, I shared 7 reasons why hipsters make great travel companions. This post looks at the reverse and examines how many of those same reasons can make traveling with a hipster extremely annoying. Every yin has its yang, right?
3 Things You Learn When You Move Abroad
I’ve been living abroad for over eight years now. I spent several of those years in England (North, South, South West and many neighborhoods of London) as well as a year in New Zealand (five different cities both in the north and south island). Coming from Brazil, the cultural differences were both shocking and enlightening.
Yin and Yang in the Wrong Country: Visiting Thailand’s White Temple and Black House
In all likelihood, travelers coming from the “western world” don’t have to spend much time in Asia to realize that most of their preconceived notions and perceived stereotypes are pretty far off from the reality of this side of the globe. Every once and a while, however, a piece of the local culture fits perfectly in to our overly generalized idea of a country’s ethos.
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